APA 3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Promotion, Boogie 2Nite

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 3122
• Professor: Martin Camiré

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All of these things together end up determining whether or not gender culture we will be healthy (some bigger than others) contemporary definitions. Health promotion asset building paradigm: current definitions of health line up here now. Were going back to more holistic definitions of how we define. Need to have parts from each side of the circle to be healthy. Active and relaxing halves = in balance creates health the circular aspect of it represents the holistic aspect. Ying/yang = from eastern medical practices, balance between activity and relaxation/recovery. Health is much more complex than just the absence of unhealthiness these models are not perfect: is there anything missing? should be modified? improvements? world. An idealistic approach of health, works in a perfect. You could consider yourself to be healthy without being perfect in each category. Health is not black/white, it is a continuum. Each individual determines whether or not they consider themselves to be healthy.